Space Marine/Gothic War now available on BL website

[Dartzap]

For those of us who didnt feel like spending a hundered quid on an ancient copy of Space Marine, Black Library have decided to make Space Marine, The Gothic War Duolgy and Insignium Astartes available - though in a very strange way...

Black Libary On Demand Service

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Well, theres something to get come pay day next week

[[R_H]]

Why the hell not just make it available as an ebook?

[white_rabbit]

Various black library guys have posted at one point or another that they don't really like the concept of E-books.

More likely the shiny shoes at GW HQ had a heart attack at the idea.

Also worth noting for the 40k nerds is that Space Marine is part of the Heretic Tomes line, in other words, canon levels has arrived.

*hawk spit*

Then again, barely restrained homoeroticism, Biffing, augury via excrement and Groin daemons are things I can live without.

[Ford Prefect]

Brother Biff!

Also worth noting for the 40k nerds is that Space Marine is part of the Heretic Tomes line, in other words, canon levels has arrived.

While I can understand why you would do this for Warhammer 40,000, that is pretty lame.

[NecronLord]

Then again, barely restrained homoeroticism, Biffing, augury via excrement and Groin daemons are things I can live without.

No, you can't live without it. *Consults the bones of Dorn* Fifteen minutes in the pain glove for your Brother.

[Connor MacLeod]

Also worth noting for the 40k nerds is that Space Marine is part of the Heretic Tomes line, in other words, canon levels has arrived.

*hawk spit*

Which will last as long as the next 40K author (I'm looking at you McNeill) writes another book, or they need to pull some obscure refrence from earlier fluff to pad out the current codex lines. I've grown to distrust any consistency in the terminology of "canon" - nevermind the quasi-religious connotations. I'll stick with "most commonly indicated" viewpoints as being the likely ones. Repetition is its own canon.

Then again, barely restrained homoeroticism, Biffing, augury via excrement and Groin daemons are things I can live without.

Hey I thougth Space Marine was Funny. It's probably one of my favroite Ian Watson stories next to Warped Stars.

And who wouldn't like a Space Marine named "Biff?"

[andrewgpaul]

It's already confused; Vladimir Pugh, Chief Librarian Franz Grenstein and Chaplain Lo Chang are all in the Index Astartes article for Imperial Fists, and Lexandro d'Arquebus is in Chaos Child, book three of the Inquisition War trilogy.

The Index Astartes article even quotes directly from one of the characters in Space Marine: "Do we bemoan such losses? No! We are the Fists! We do not need to hibernate or spit venom. We crush our enemies." although it re-attributes the quote.